Crypt of Echoes × The Salty Rag · October 14, 2026
People in the Berrydale fire records
130 named people, with source locations and limits on what we know.
All 38 victims and 13 survivors in the special investigation’s roster are included. Officials, relatives, investigators, responders and directly relevant legislative participants follow. This is an evidence index, not a finding of guilt or a complete biography of each person. Incidental names on unrelated journal business are excluded.
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Victim
Thomas Eugene Ard
Listed among the 38 victims in the Division of Corrections special investigation. The report reproduces a coroner’s-jury finding attributing the fire deaths to him and two other prisoners.
Limits: Spelling follows the typed roster. Age, background and family history have not been independently verified. This was an inquest finding, not a criminal conviction; he died in the fire and could not answer the allegation.
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Victim
Charles James Blossom
Listed among the 38 victims in the Division of Corrections special investigation.
Limits: Spelling follows the typed roster. Age, background and family history have not been independently verified.
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Victim
Archie Lee Chister
Listed among the 38 victims in the Division of Corrections special investigation.
Limits: Spelling follows the typed roster. Age, background and family history have not been independently verified.
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Victim
Lester Cleves
Listed among the 38 victims in the Division of Corrections special investigation. The report also lists him among eight unclaimed bodies buried at Century.
Limits: Spelling follows the typed roster. Age, background and family history have not been independently verified.
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Victim
David Franklin Cole
Listed among the 38 victims in the Division of Corrections special investigation. Stafford’s November 29 letter identifies Laraine Cole as his widow and R. C. Cole as his father; it describes their requests for information.
Limits: Spelling follows the typed roster. Age, background and family history have not been independently verified.
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Victim
Jimmy Copeland
Listed among the 38 victims in the Division of Corrections special investigation. Report says he died July 19 after escaping the building, bringing the death toll from 37 to 38.
Limits: Spelling follows the typed roster. Age, background and family history have not been independently verified.
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Victim
James Cunningham
Listed among the 38 victims in the Division of Corrections special investigation.
Limits: Spelling follows the typed roster. Age, background and family history have not been independently verified.
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Victim
Charles Edward Delain
Listed among the 38 victims in the Division of Corrections special investigation.
Limits: Spelling follows the typed roster. Age, background and family history have not been independently verified.
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Victim
Vincent B. Dovico
Listed among the 38 victims in the Division of Corrections special investigation.
Limits: Spelling follows the typed roster. Age, background and family history have not been independently verified.
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Victim
Earl Evans
Listed among the 38 victims in the Division of Corrections special investigation. Some AP/UPI reprints accuse Evans; the official report’s reproduced verdict instead names Earl Frank Hoffman.
Limits: Spelling follows the typed roster. Age, background and family history have not been independently verified. Do not merge Evans with Hoffman or label Evans a convicted perpetrator.
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Victim
Eddie B. Gable
Listed among the 38 victims in the Division of Corrections special investigation.
Limits: Spelling follows the typed roster. Age, background and family history have not been independently verified.
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Victim
Jesse Gray
Listed among the 38 victims in the Division of Corrections special investigation.
Limits: Spelling follows the typed roster. Age, background and family history have not been independently verified.
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Victim
Bobby Lee Hall
Listed among the 38 victims in the Division of Corrections special investigation.
Limits: Spelling follows the typed roster. Age, background and family history have not been independently verified.
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Victim
George Edward Hall, Jr.
Listed among the 38 victims in the Division of Corrections special investigation.
Limits: Spelling follows the typed roster. Age, background and family history have not been independently verified.
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Eugene Hamilton
Listed among the 38 victims in the Division of Corrections special investigation.
Limits: Spelling follows the typed roster. Age, background and family history have not been independently verified.
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Victim
Harrell Arthur Harp, Jr.
Listed among the 38 victims in the Division of Corrections special investigation.
Limits: Spelling follows the typed roster. Age, background and family history have not been independently verified.
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Victim
Donald Wayne Harper
Listed among the 38 victims in the Division of Corrections special investigation.
Limits: Spelling follows the typed roster. Age, background and family history have not been independently verified.
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Victim
Robert Henn, Jr.
Listed among the 38 victims in the Division of Corrections special investigation.
Limits: Spelling follows the typed roster. Age, background and family history have not been independently verified.
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Victim
James Hill
Listed among the 38 victims in the Division of Corrections special investigation. The report also lists him among eight unclaimed bodies buried at Century.
Limits: Spelling follows the typed roster. Age, background and family history have not been independently verified.
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Victim
Earl Frank Hoffman
Listed among the 38 victims in the Division of Corrections special investigation. The report reproduces a coroner’s-jury finding attributing the fire deaths to him and two other prisoners.
Limits: Spelling follows the typed roster. Age, background and family history have not been independently verified. This was an inquest finding, not a criminal conviction; he died in the fire and could not answer the allegation. Newspaper reprints name Earl Evans instead; the conflict is retained, not silently resolved.
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Victim
Albert Ivery
Listed among the 38 victims in the Division of Corrections special investigation. The report also lists him among eight unclaimed bodies buried at Century.
Limits: Spelling follows the typed roster. Age, background and family history have not been independently verified.
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Mack Laster
Listed among the 38 victims in the Division of Corrections special investigation. The report also lists him among eight unclaimed bodies buried at Century.
Limits: Spelling follows the typed roster. Age, background and family history have not been independently verified.
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Willie Nelson Leslie
Listed among the 38 victims in the Division of Corrections special investigation.
Limits: Spelling follows the typed roster. Age, background and family history have not been independently verified.
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Victim
Johnny Lewis
Listed among the 38 victims in the Division of Corrections special investigation. The report also lists him among eight unclaimed bodies buried at Century.
Limits: Spelling follows the typed roster. Age, background and family history have not been independently verified.
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Victim
John Lee McFarlin
Listed among the 38 victims in the Division of Corrections special investigation.
Limits: Spelling follows the typed roster. Age, background and family history have not been independently verified.
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Victim
Reginald Milton McGuire
Listed among the 38 victims in the Division of Corrections special investigation. The report also lists him among eight unclaimed bodies buried at Century.
Limits: Spelling follows the typed roster. Age, background and family history have not been independently verified.
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Victim
Lee Andrew Mitchell
Listed among the 38 victims in the Division of Corrections special investigation. The report also lists him among eight unclaimed bodies buried at Century. A July 20 letter in S1805 records attorney Earle V. Rifas seeking his remains and burial assistance for Willie Mae Mitchell.
Limits: Spelling follows the typed roster. Age, background and family history have not been independently verified. The “unclaimed” administrative label must not be read as proof nobody sought his remains.
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Victim
Ronnie Nichols
Listed among the 38 victims in the Division of Corrections special investigation.
Limits: Spelling follows the typed roster. Age, background and family history have not been independently verified.
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Victim
Jessie Osburn
Listed among the 38 victims in the Division of Corrections special investigation.
Limits: Spelling follows the typed roster. Age, background and family history have not been independently verified.
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Victim
Charles Palmer
Listed among the 38 victims in the Division of Corrections special investigation.
Limits: Spelling follows the typed roster. Age, background and family history have not been independently verified.
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Victim
Felix Randall
Listed among the 38 victims in the Division of Corrections special investigation.
Limits: Spelling follows the typed roster. Age, background and family history have not been independently verified.
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Victim
Drell Rivers, Jr.
Listed among the 38 victims in the Division of Corrections special investigation.
Limits: Spelling follows the typed roster. Age, background and family history have not been independently verified.
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Victim
Isac Robinson
Listed among the 38 victims in the Division of Corrections special investigation.
Limits: Spelling follows the typed roster. Age, background and family history have not been independently verified.
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Victim
Johnnie Simmons
Listed among the 38 victims in the Division of Corrections special investigation.
Limits: Spelling follows the typed roster. Age, background and family history have not been independently verified.
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Victim
Tommy Day Smith
Listed among the 38 victims in the Division of Corrections special investigation.
Limits: Spelling follows the typed roster. Age, background and family history have not been independently verified.
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Victim
Albert Truluck
Listed among the 38 victims in the Division of Corrections special investigation. The report also lists him among eight unclaimed bodies buried at Century.
Limits: Spelling follows the typed roster. Age, background and family history have not been independently verified.
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Victim
Ruben Williams
Listed among the 38 victims in the Division of Corrections special investigation.
Limits: Spelling follows the typed roster. Age, background and family history have not been independently verified.
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Victim
Joseph Wynder
Listed among the 38 victims in the Division of Corrections special investigation. The report reproduces a coroner’s-jury finding attributing the fire deaths to him and two other prisoners.
Limits: Spelling follows the typed roster. Age, background and family history have not been independently verified. This was an inquest finding, not a criminal conviction; he died in the fire and could not answer the allegation.
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Surviving prisoner
Robert Ed Anderson
Named in the 13-person survivor roster of the special investigation.
Limits: Listed as a survivor; this alone does not establish which particular statement or newspaper quotation was his. The individual interview appendices are missing from the received set. Later narrative uses Robert Edward Anderson; retain that variation until checked against the original individual file.
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Surviving prisoner
Willie James Anderson
Named in the 13-person survivor roster of the special investigation.
Limits: Listed as a survivor; this alone does not establish which particular statement or newspaper quotation was his. The individual interview appendices are missing from the received set.
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Surviving prisoner
William E. Barton
Named in the 13-person survivor roster of the special investigation.
Limits: Listed as a survivor; this alone does not establish which particular statement or newspaper quotation was his. The individual interview appendices are missing from the received set.
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Surviving prisoner
Eddie Burse, Jr.
Named in the 13-person survivor roster of the special investigation.
Limits: Listed as a survivor; this alone does not establish which particular statement or newspaper quotation was his. The individual interview appendices are missing from the received set.
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Surviving prisoner
Robert Lee Coleman
Named in the 13-person survivor roster of the special investigation.
Limits: Listed as a survivor; this alone does not establish which particular statement or newspaper quotation was his. The individual interview appendices are missing from the received set.
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Surviving prisoner
Clyde James Donaldson
Named in the 13-person survivor roster of the special investigation.
Limits: Listed as a survivor; this alone does not establish which particular statement or newspaper quotation was his. The individual interview appendices are missing from the received set.
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Surviving prisoner
Henry Wayne Lambert
Named in the 13-person survivor roster of the special investigation.
Limits: Listed as a survivor; this alone does not establish which particular statement or newspaper quotation was his. The individual interview appendices are missing from the received set.
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Surviving prisoner
Joseph C. Lewis
Named in the 13-person survivor roster of the special investigation.
Limits: Listed as a survivor; this alone does not establish which particular statement or newspaper quotation was his. The individual interview appendices are missing from the received set.
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Surviving prisoner
Jerold Milligan
Named in the 13-person survivor roster of the special investigation.
Limits: Listed as a survivor; this alone does not establish which particular statement or newspaper quotation was his. The individual interview appendices are missing from the received set.
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Surviving prisoner
James Frazier Noles
Named in the 13-person survivor roster of the special investigation.
Limits: Listed as a survivor; this alone does not establish which particular statement or newspaper quotation was his. The individual interview appendices are missing from the received set. Later narrative uses Francis Noles with the same prisoner number; preserve the discrepancy.
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Surviving prisoner
Gary Allen Powe
Named in the 13-person survivor roster of the special investigation.
Limits: Listed as a survivor; this alone does not establish which particular statement or newspaper quotation was his. The individual interview appendices are missing from the received set.
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Surviving prisoner
Roy Gay Reagan
Named in the 13-person survivor roster of the special investigation.
Limits: Listed as a survivor; this alone does not establish which particular statement or newspaper quotation was his. The individual interview appendices are missing from the received set.
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Surviving prisoner
Leslie Smith, Jr.
Named in the 13-person survivor roster of the special investigation.
Limits: Listed as a survivor; this alone does not establish which particular statement or newspaper quotation was his. The individual interview appendices are missing from the received set.
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Officer in charge
A. O. Lovett
The investigation describes his transfer of keys to Cobb for the armory, repeated attempts to unlock the exit and rescue activity. The reproduced jury finding found no negligence by prison officials.
Limits: Accounts must be attributed; rescue activity and the adequacy of the key procedure are separate questions. Family complaints about his conduct are allegations, not established misconduct.
S923 · PDF 10, 13–16 · Archive profile
Roving officer
R. E. Cobb
Listed as a roving officer; the report describes him receiving keys to obtain weapons from the armory during the disturbance.
Limits: Newspapers expand the name to Richard E. Cobb; use initials until identity is independently checked.
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Roving officer
D. Coker Nelson
Listed among staff on duty; appears in the report’s account of calls for assistance during the disturbance and fire.
Limits: Newspaper spellings vary, including Cocker Nelson. Do not infer a different person solely from spelling.
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Camp captain
C. E. Acree
Listed as captain; signed July 19 affidavit saying fire plan 64-M8 had been posted about July 1, 1964 and staff had read and initialed it.
Limits: The affidavit establishes his assertion, not independent verification that each required action occurred during the fire.
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Camp sergeant
G. E. Mayne
Listed as sergeant; narrative describes his inquest testimony. George E. Mayne, Jr. notarized Acree’s affidavit.
Limits: Initials and title vary in newspaper accounts. Do not treat the early gas-line account as the investigation’s final finding.
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Director, Division of Corrections
Louie L. Wainwright
Recipient of the special investigation. Correspondence and board records document his proposed camp closures, staffing and funding request, and reported changes to keys and fire precautions.
Limits: An administrative assertion or proposal is not proof that a change was completed.
S923 · PDF 7–10; also S1805 PDF 10–12 · Archive profile
Superintendent of road prisons
L. W. Griffith
Listed as superintendent; testified at inquest and issued the June 25, 1964 fire plan.
Limits: The plan is present; the full transcript of his testimony is not.
S923 · PDF 10, 15–16, 20–21 · Archive profile
Assistant superintendent of road prisons
O. P. Constant
Listed in the investigation’s personnel roster.
Limits: No separate account of his actions established from this roster.
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Administrative assistant, road prisons
R. W. Brantley, Jr.
Listed in the investigation’s personnel roster.
Limits: No separate account of his actions established from this roster.
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Special agent
R. C. Henderson
Listed among Division of Corrections personnel.
Limits: No separate individual investigative file received.
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Physician
T. J. Stewart
Listed as M.D. in the personnel roster.
Limits: Do not infer an autopsy role solely from this listing.
S923 · PDF 10 · Archive profile
State Road Department foreman
Marvin Free
Listed among State Road Department personnel.
Limits: Role listed; individual testimony not supplied.
S923 · PDF 10 · Archive profile
State Road Department foreman
Pasco Rowell
Listed in the personnel roster. Early newspaper accounts attribute a racial-fight explanation to a foreman whose surname is printed Rowells.
Limits: The investigation and reproduced verdict later reject evidence of racial violence; the early account is not a settled finding.
S923 · PDF 10; early AP report July 17 · Archive profile
State Road Department truck driver
J. O. Jones
Listed among State Road Department personnel.
Limits: No separate individual account supplied.
S923 · PDF 10 · Archive profile
Prison inspector and investigator
R. B. Gramling
One of three named authors of the special investigation.
Limits: An author of the official account, not independent corroboration of it.
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Prison inspector and investigator
R. P. McLendon
Coauthor of the special investigation; evidence inventory lists 12 photographs he made July 17.
Limits: Photographs are listed but not present as a complete labeled evidence set in the delivery.
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Superintendent, Apalachee Correctional Institution
Paul J. Eubanks
Coauthor of the special investigation; report describes survivor transfers to Apalachee and further statements there.
Limits: Referenced individual statements are not supplied.
S923 · PDF 9, 16–18 · Archive profile
Governor’s investigator
William F. Quick
Associate investigator in report. Stafford describes an August 16 meeting with Cole’s father and Quick, typed questions, and further investigative work.
Limits: Original questions, notes and complete Quick reports remain leads. Bill Quick is the name used in Stafford’s letter.
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State Fire Marshal investigator
Donald L. Stevenson
Named associate investigator; the evidence inventory credits him with finding a Timex watch in shower-room debris, stopped at 9:08.
Limits: The stopped watch does not independently establish the ignition time.
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Attorney General’s office investigator
James McCall
Listed as an associate investigator.
Limits: Distinct listing from County Judge Mahlon C. McCall; do not merge them.
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Attorney General’s office investigator
George E. Watts, Jr.
Listed as an associate investigator.
Limits: No individual notes supplied.
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Attorney General’s office investigator
Arthur S. Mann
Listed as an associate investigator.
Limits: No individual notes supplied.
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County judge / coroner
Mahlon C. McCall
The report identifies the coroner and describes the July 17–18 inquest, site visit and verdict.
Limits: The report reproduces the verdict, but is not the original signed coroner’s return or complete transcript.
S923 · PDF 15–16 · Archive profile
State attorney, First Judicial Circuit
William H. Stafford, Jr.
His November 29 letter describes his office’s role in identification and inquest work, correspondence with the Cole family, and opposition to convening a grand jury.
Limits: The letter is Stafford’s account of family concerns. His characterization of a grieving relative is not adopted as fact.
S923 · PDF 2–3, 15–16 · Archive profile
Assistant state attorney
Curtis Golden
Named in the account of arrangements for the inquest and advice concerning funeral services.
Limits: Complete office files and funeral procurement documents not received.
S923 · PDF 15–16 · Archive profile
Deputy / temporary morgue custody
Newton V. McGuffin, Jr.
Report identifies him in connection with custody of the temporary morgue jointly with corrections personnel.
Limits: Original body-custody records remain sought.
S923 · PDF 15 · Archive profile
Family member
Laraine Cole
Stafford identifies her as David F. Cole’s widow and discusses her requests for information and concerns about treatment, transfer and the response to the fire.
Limits: Her original letter is not in the supplied set. Hearsay about a refusal to open the door is not established fact.
S923 · PDF 2–3 · Archive profile
Family member
R. C. Cole
Identified by Stafford as David Cole’s father; met Stafford and Quick on August 16 and supplied typed questions.
Limits: The original questions and a direct family account are missing.
S923 · PDF 2–3 · Archive profile
Family member represented in correspondence
Willie Mae Mitchell
Attorney Earle V. Rifas’s July 20 letter seeks Lee Andrew Mitchell’s remains and assistance with funeral costs on her behalf.
Limits: Do not infer absence of family interest from the investigation’s unclaimed-body label; exact relationship should follow the letter rather than assumption.
S1805 · PDF 13–14 · Archive profile
Attorney
Earle V. Rifas
Wrote July 20 on behalf of Willie Mae Mitchell concerning remains and funeral costs.
Limits: No subsequent disposition of the request is established by this letter.
S1805 · PDF 14 · Archive profile
Correspondence forwarding official
Terry C. Lee
Forwarded Rifas’s letter on July 21.
Limits: No substantive resolution established.
S1805 · PDF 13 · Archive profile
Governor of Florida
Claude Kirk
Governor’s office requested investigative work; July 17 directive is referenced in the August 15 corrections reply. Kirk-era correspondence preserves the family concerns and investigation.
Limits: The complete directive, investigative correspondence and implementation record remain to be located.
S923 · PDF 2–3, 7–9 · Archive profile
Governor’s office correspondent
Jack Ledden
Addressee of Stafford’s November 29 reply concerning the Cole family; Stafford refers to Ledden’s October 9 letter.
Limits: The original October 9 inquiry is not included in this delivery.
S923 · PDF 2–3 · Archive profile
Cabinet subcommittee chair
Doyle Conner
July 20 letter asks for a camp phaseout funding plan; chaired September 26 discussion of ventilation, air conditioning and claims arising from the fire.
Limits: Minutes show deliberation and approval; expenditure and completion require separate proof.
S1805 · PDF 8; S923 PDF 4–6 · Archive profile
Cabinet subcommittee participant
Earl Faircloth
Listed at September 26 meeting on corrections matters and road-camp improvements.
Limits: Membership does not establish personal responsibility for conditions at Jay.
S923 · PDF 4–6 · Archive profile
Comptroller’s representative
Burl Mawhinney
Attended September 26 for Comptroller Fred O. Dickinson.
Limits: Meeting role only.
S923 · PDF 4–6 · Archive profile
Comptroller
Fred O. Dickinson
Represented by Burl Mawhinney at the September 26 meeting.
Limits: Do not describe Dickinson as personally present on this evidence.
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Governor’s representative
George Caldwell
Listed as representing the governor at September 26 meeting.
Limits: Meeting role only.
S923 · PDF 4–6 · Archive profile
Deputy director, corrections business affairs
Paul A. Skelton, Jr.
Listed among September 26 participants.
Limits: Meeting role only.
S923 · PDF 4–6 · Archive profile
Assistant attorney general
T. T. Turnbull
Listed among September 26 participants.
Limits: Meeting role only.
S923 · PDF 4–6 · Archive profile
Attorney for Conner
Wilton Miller
Listed among September 26 participants.
Limits: Meeting role only.
S923 · PDF 4–6 · Archive profile
Fire-safety inspector
T. W. Burkhart
Named in August 15 report on inspections of 13 wooden road camps.
Limits: Conditions described across the inspection program cannot automatically be assigned to Jay.
S1805 · PDF 4–7 · Archive profile
Fire-safety inspector
C. W. McPherson
Named in August 15 report on inspections of 13 wooden road camps.
Limits: Individual camp inspection sheets not supplied.
S1805 · PDF 4–7 · Archive profile
Fire-safety inspector
W. T. “Tommy” Knight
Named in August 15 report on inspections of 13 wooden road camps.
Limits: Individual camp inspection sheets not supplied.
S1805 · PDF 4–7 · Archive profile
Gas inspection engineer
Robert E. Gresimer
Named in inspection material concerning gas-system conditions.
Limits: Unsafe examples at unnamed camps must not be attributed to Jay without a camp-specific record.
S1805 · PDF 4–7 · Archive profile
Milton Fire Department captain
Calvin E. Ellison
1969 HCR 1954 commends emergency aid and mouth-to-mouth resuscitation at Berrydale; House adopted it May 15 and Senate May 16.
Limits: The resolution says his efforts may have preserved life; it does not identify a particular person saved.
Senate · printed p.385; House delivery PDF 3, printed p.532 · Archive profile
Reporter
Bill Dingwall
Byline on Pensacola News July 17, 1967 front-page account. Matching received newspaper page supplies issue context for an earlier cropped clipping.
Limits: Reporter attribution is not proof of every reported statement.
Newspapers · Pensacola News, July 17, front page · Archive profile
Reporter
Anne Saul
Byline with Ben Pooley on Pensacola News July 18 front-page inquest coverage.
Limits: Coverage reports testimony and official conclusions; it is not the original transcript.
Newspapers · Pensacola News, July 18, front page · Archive profile
Reporter
Ben Pooley
Byline with Anne Saul on Pensacola News July 18 front-page inquest coverage.
Limits: Coverage reports testimony and official conclusions; it is not the original transcript.
Newspapers · Pensacola News, July 18, front page · Archive profile
State senator
L. P. “Pete” Gibson
July 18 newspaper coverage reports his call for a legislative investigation.
Limits: A proposed investigation does not establish that hearings occurred or a report was produced.
Newspapers · Pensacola News, July 18, front page · Archive profile
Road Prison Officer I
R. J. Pitts
Named in the personnel roster.
Limits: No further individual biography established in the reviewed material.
S923 · PDF 10 · Archive profile
Road Prison Officer I
J. G. Carr
Named in the personnel roster.
Limits: No further individual biography established in the reviewed material.
S923 · PDF 10 · Archive profile
Road Prison Officer I
L. C. Phillips
Named in the personnel roster.
Limits: No further individual biography established in the reviewed material.
S923 · PDF 10 · Archive profile
Autopsy team
Gretchen V. Squires
Named in the report’s account of the autopsy team appointed by the state attorney.
Limits: Names transcribed from the report; signed autopsy reports have not been received. Do not infer an individual medical conclusion.
S923 · PDF 16 · Archive profile
Autopsy team
Lewis E. Buettner
Named in the report’s account of the autopsy team appointed by the state attorney.
Limits: Names transcribed from the report; signed autopsy reports have not been received. Do not infer an individual medical conclusion.
S923 · PDF 16 · Archive profile
Autopsy team
Gerald H. Hilbert
Named in the report’s account of the autopsy team appointed by the state attorney.
Limits: Names transcribed from the report; signed autopsy reports have not been received. Do not infer an individual medical conclusion.
S923 · PDF 16 · Archive profile
Autopsy team
Charles F. McConnell
Named in the report’s account of the autopsy team appointed by the state attorney.
Limits: Names transcribed from the report; signed autopsy reports have not been received. Do not infer an individual medical conclusion.
S923 · PDF 16 · Archive profile
Autopsy team
Albert Drlicka
Named in the report’s account of the autopsy team appointed by the state attorney.
Limits: Names transcribed from the report; signed autopsy reports have not been received. Do not infer an individual medical conclusion.
S923 · PDF 16 · Archive profile
Autopsy team
Joseph P. Brierre, Jr.
Named in the report’s account of the autopsy team appointed by the state attorney.
Limits: Names transcribed from the report; signed autopsy reports have not been received. Do not infer an individual medical conclusion.
S923 · PDF 16 · Archive profile
Dental identification team
Andrew Hinton
Named in the report’s account of dental examinations used for identification.
Limits: Original signed dental reports and person-by-person identifications have not been received.
S923 · PDF 16–17 · Archive profile
Dental identification team
Charles L. Billingsley
Named in the report’s account of dental examinations used for identification.
Limits: Original signed dental reports and person-by-person identifications have not been received.
S923 · PDF 16–17 · Archive profile
Dental identification team
Kermit Adkins
Named in the report’s account of dental examinations used for identification.
Limits: Original signed dental reports and person-by-person identifications have not been received.
S923 · PDF 16–17 · Archive profile
Dental identification team
John B. Coker
Named in the report’s account of dental examinations used for identification.
Limits: Original signed dental reports and person-by-person identifications have not been received.
S923 · PDF 16–17 · Archive profile
Dental identification team
Clarence O. Shows
Named in the report’s account of dental examinations used for identification.
Limits: Original signed dental reports and person-by-person identifications have not been received.
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Dental identification team
Phillip A. Payne
Named in the report’s account of dental examinations used for identification.
Limits: Original signed dental reports and person-by-person identifications have not been received.
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Dental identification team
C. J. Adkins
Named in the report’s account of dental examinations used for identification.
Limits: Original signed dental reports and person-by-person identifications have not been received.
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Dental identification team
Frank Greskovick
Named in the report’s account of dental examinations used for identification.
Limits: Original signed dental reports and person-by-person identifications have not been received.
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Prisoner assisting identification work
Eugene Parks
One of five prisoners brought from the Niceville camp to assist the autopsy and dental teams. The report recommends recognition of their assistance.
Limits: Not listed among the 51 prisoners confined at Jay at the time of the fire; keep the two groups distinct.
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Prisoner assisting identification work
John Gafford
One of five prisoners brought from the Niceville camp to assist the autopsy and dental teams. The report recommends recognition of their assistance.
Limits: Not listed among the 51 prisoners confined at Jay at the time of the fire; keep the two groups distinct.
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Prisoner assisting identification work
Kenneth Gillis
One of five prisoners brought from the Niceville camp to assist the autopsy and dental teams. The report recommends recognition of their assistance.
Limits: Not listed among the 51 prisoners confined at Jay at the time of the fire; keep the two groups distinct.
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Prisoner assisting identification work
Phillip DeLaney
One of five prisoners brought from the Niceville camp to assist the autopsy and dental teams. The report recommends recognition of their assistance.
Limits: Not listed among the 51 prisoners confined at Jay at the time of the fire; keep the two groups distinct.
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Prisoner assisting identification work
Jack Lewis
One of five prisoners brought from the Niceville camp to assist the autopsy and dental teams. The report recommends recognition of their assistance.
Limits: Not listed among the 51 prisoners confined at Jay at the time of the fire; keep the two groups distinct.
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Funeral-service assistance
Joe Morris
The report credits the mortician of Joe Morris Funeral Home, Pensacola, with voluntary assistance.
Limits: No further individual biography established in the reviewed material.
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Funeral-service assistance
John Reed
The report credits him, of Benboe Funeral Home, Pensacola, with voluntary assistance.
Limits: No further individual biography established in the reviewed material.
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Legislative record
Representative Fortune
Listed as a sponsor of HCR 1954.
Limits: Initials/full identity not expanded beyond the document; incidental legislators on unrelated votes are excluded.
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Legislative record
Representative Elmore
Listed as a sponsor of HCR 1954.
Limits: Initials/full identity not expanded beyond the document; incidental legislators on unrelated votes are excluded.
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Legislative record
Representative Melvin
Listed as a sponsor of HCR 1954; moved its adoption May 15.
Limits: Initials/full identity not expanded beyond the document; incidental legislators on unrelated votes are excluded.
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Legislative record
Allen Morris
Clerk whose May 22 enrolling report records HCR 1954 as enrolled, signed and presented to the governor.
Limits: Initials/full identity not expanded beyond the document; incidental legislators on unrelated votes are excluded.
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Legislative record
Edwin G. Fraser
Secretary of the Senate whose message of concurrence is printed in the House journal May 19.
Limits: Initials/full identity not expanded beyond the document; incidental legislators on unrelated votes are excluded.
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